Apple Picking in New York

Last Saturday, my dear friend April called and suggested we go apple picking. So, I drove to New York (state people, not city...that's where she lives...its not far) and we spent the day enjoying Fall. It was such a nice day and we really had a great time!

U2

So the Pags have been planning, for months, to go to the U2 concert in New Jersey at the Giants stadium. What wasn't planned, though is that Chris would happen upon two extra tickets and take his very grateful nanny with them! Yeah, that's right, I went to see U2 last night!! Cool, huh? We started the evening by doing the "tailgating" thing. Sandwiches and beer in the parking lot with the Pags makes me so happy! Then we went in (to the outdoor arena) (along with over 84,000 other people...yeah, that many. It broke a record) to see the show. The two extra seats weren't by the other four, so to begin with it was just Louise (Chris' mom) and I while the other four were much closer to the stage in their seats. But Chris sent me a text a few songs in that said there were empty seats by them so we should sneak down. It was so great. We had a lot of fun!

Where I Currently Reside

I realised the other day that I never did get around to posting pictures of my new home...sorry mom :) well, here it is. Their whole house is really beautiful...but I just added pictures of the outside of the house, and my room. Enjoy!

Hey! My lamps tilted!

Glenn Beck

Hey guess what happened on Monday...

I went to a BBQ/picnic thing and you'll never believe who was there...or maybe you will cause the title of this post is Glenn Beck...and because there is a picture up there of me and Sadie with Glenn Beck...anyway, Glenn Beck was there! I don't regularly listen or watch him, but it was really cool to meet him just the same. He was really down to earth and nice. And it was fun to call Brandon after the picnic to rub it in :) tee hee, love ya B.

Rock On NYC...day two...

Sunday was day two of my Rock & Roll tour of Manhattan (if you didn't read about day one, go back a post and check it out). Day two was just as great as day one was, and just like day one there were WAY too many photos to share them all here, but here are a few of them:

One of the stops on the tour was at Washington Square Park. A plethora of musical wonderments! I spent so long just wandering around enjoying the beautiful weather and the people who set themselves and their instruments up all around the park. So great! This is me in front of the fountain and the arch.

This is me in front of The Bitter End. If you have a favorite artist, chances are they have played here. It claims to be New Yorks longest running night club, and the list of names who have played here is unbelievable

And here I am at Cafe Wha? Yet another amazing place, but I'm only going to write two names. Jimi Hendrix. Bob Dylan. WOW!

Speaking of Bob Dylan (one of my all time favorites, in case you didn't know) here I am standing on the street where the cover photo for the album "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" was taken. This was such a cool thing to me. I was slightly overwhelmed at the actuality of it all and I really, really loved it!

And the last stop on the tour...where else? The Hotel Chelsea. It would have been hard for the weekend to have been any better for me than it was!

Rock On NYC...day one...

I'm not sure who in the blogging world knows this so I will say it as a precursor to my story. I LOVE music. I love almost all kinds of music with a passion that is hard to describe but I particularly love older Rock and Roll. The classic, groundbreaking, revolutionary, wonderfully amazing stuff. So when my mom sent me an email before I even moved out here (thanks mom!) about a self guided audio tour of a bunch of great Rock & Roll spots around Manhattan I was very excited. So I got on the website (citylisten.com if anyone is interested) and bought it (for $7.50) and downloaded it so I could do it today. The website said to plan on about two hours to take the tour, depending on how long you stay at each stop...I got through stop 10 of 26. Yup, all day long and I didn't even make it half way. It has been wonderful so far, and since its a long weekend I'm going back tomorrow to finish! Yay!

There are way too many pictures to share all of them, but here are a couple that I liked. I'm thinking the two day trip might turn into a scrapbook. Not a couple pages in a scrapbook, but a whole scrapbook all for itself, so ask me to see it sometime!

This is me on the train going into the city. I was so excited!

And this has been my favorite stop so far...although CBGB's was pretty cool...and I went on a non-scheduled (on the tour) stop to the Morrison Hotel that was also really cool...and the non-scheduled stop at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex was pretty neat too...

But that's not what this picture is of. This is the building pictured on the cover of Led Zeppelins' Physical Graffiti album! Cool Huh?!! I Know!! I seriously stood here and looked at this building for at least a half hour, at LEAST! It was really great! I asked a very nice guy to take a picture of me with the building in the background (he and his wife and daughter got very excited when I informed them what he was taking a picture of, by the way).

Anyway, that's it for today...I say that as if this post wasn't miles long, sorry :) I'll fill you in on tomorrows events later, you know, after they happen.

On Our Way Home

Tonight we went to dinner at the country club. Chris, Dorothy, Alex, Madeleine and myself. It was a great meal and great company. Such a beautiful night and we were all in wonderful moods. After dinner Chris, Dorothy & Mad went home in their car and Alex and I took mine. What a great ride home! As we were walking out to the car Alex was singing the song to his dad and I that he had just discovered he "loves!" In my humble opinion, it's a stupid song. Its called "Party in the USA" and its by Miley Cyrus. Anyway, he apparently loves this song and he told me that he was going to search the radio until he found it, and we couldn't go home until he found it either. We got into the car, and guess what was playing...you should have seen his face! It was priceless, he was so, so, so excited! He turned the radio up, opened the sunroof and sang and danced along. Then he kept telling me where to turn so that we could take the long way home and hopefully hear it again. We did take the long way home. And we heard the song two and a half (the first time it was almost over so it didn't count as a full time) times on our journey home. What a great kid. It was worth listening to the stupid song two and a half times to see his excitement about it. Great ride home!